The PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages

This colloquium is organized by Professor Magdalena Perkowska, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, and Ángeles Donoso Macaya, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

From the organizers: The aim of the “Photography and Disciplinary Discourses” Symposium is to critically consider the different discourses, approaches, and disciplines that surface vis-à-vis the photographic image. The 4th Symposium—the first to be held outside Chile—will reflect on the interdisciplinary potentialities of documentary photography as a political, cultural, social, economic and aesthetic device throughout Latino/a America, in the broadest hemispheric sense of the term.

Updated! The editors of the LL Journal have extended the deadline for submissions to March 25, 2017!

The LL Journal is a publication of the students of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages PhD program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Find out more about the LL Journal and browse their most recent issue (Vol. 11, No. 2) and archives on their Commons site.

In current debates, the idea of a wall becomes a point of discussion from which to explore the relationship between public engagement and academia. Are the walls that separate intellectual, linguistic, artistic, social, and political practices insurmountable? What other metaphors of the wall speak to us? How do we imagine these metaphors and what forms do they take? Who constructs them and who challenges them? When are they useful and when are they not? How do we cross them?

This conference proposes to jump over, perforate, cross, and tear down walls. It invites us to transgress academic hermeticism in order to overcome isolation and promote reflection on intellectual work, its social dimension and its relationship with the public. Through original investigations, we hope to discuss limits and their forms, whether they be self-imposed or constructed, and strategies to overcome these limits.

In order to approach these issues, we seek to reflect on the following themes, without limiting ourselves to them:

Language of the wall and walls of language

Points of departure for outlining walls

Public engagement or “just another brick in the wall”

Glotopolitics and other sociolinguistic challenges

Contemporary language mapping

Multilinguism and the preservation of languages

Translation, demolitions and acculturations

Identity, immigration and culture

lntertextuality/intermediality/interdisciplinarity

Walls and coloniality

Gender/Género/Genre walls

Bodies and walls

Jumping over walls in performing practices

Social networks: the virtual wall

Walls and urban practices

The doctoral students of the PhD Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York invite you to submit abstracts (250 words) to congreso.hlbll.cuny@gmail.com before 01/15/2017. In the body of the email, please include your name, contact information, academic affiliation and any needed audiovisual equipment. Your presentations are limited to a maximum of 20 minutes and can be presented in Spanish, English or Portuguese.

Call for Papers: LL Journal’s Volume 11, Number 2

Deadline for submission: October 3, 2016

The LL Journal is a publication of the students of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages PhD program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Find out more about the LL Journal and browse their most recent issue (Vol. 11, No. 1) and archives on their Commons site.

The Executive Officer of Art History has proposed a joint reception/reunion between students and faculty of HLBLL and Art History. Various Art History students are working in the area of Latin American art, and are hoping for creating connections with HLBLL’s excellent group of faculty and students. It is an opportunity to meet colleagues in other programs and forge the kinds of relationships that lead to interdisciplinary study and projects.

Call for Papers: LL Journal’s Volume 11, Number 1

Deadline for submission: March 13, 2016

The information below was provided by the editorial team of the LL Journal, a publication of the students of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages PhD program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Find out more about the LL Journal and browse their most recent issue (Vol. 10, No. 1) and archives on their Commons site.